Cigar-bunch machine



(No Model.)

S. ROSENBERGER & S. JACKSON.

CIGAR BUNCH MACHINE.

.No. 553,764. Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

UNITE-D ST-ATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON ROSENBERGER AND SAMUELJACKSON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CIGAR-BUNCHMACHINE.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,764, dated January 28, 1896.

A li ti filed September 5,1895. Serial No. 561,568. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,- SIMON ROSENBERGER and SAMUEL J ACKSON, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Bunch Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cigar-bunching machines and has for its object to provide improved means for taking up the slack of the bunch-rolling apron.

The features of our invention will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improvement. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the apron support and stretcher.

1 represents pendent arms projecting from the roller-board 2. 3 represents oscillating arms upon which the bunch-roller 4: is adjustably mounted. 5 represents the recess in the front end of the rolling-board. 6 represents a spring-yoke which opens to receive the bunch after it is rolled. 7 represents the apron in which the bunch is rolled, the opposite ends of the apron being respectively attached to the ends of the roller-board 2. These parts are of ordinary construction.

The ends of the apron are held taut; but it is long enough to furnish the necessary slack to envelop the bunch in the act of rolling.

In order to hold the apron taut and t0 automatically bring the apron back smoothly into position for use as soon as a bunch has been discharged we provide an apron-support A, which is pivoted to the front edge of the table in front of the recess 5. This support in the preferred form of construction is made of wire and is U-shaped, the ends of the bail journaling in lugs B which are secured to the table by screws to.

0 represents an extension of one of the journal-limbs.

D represents a retractile spring, one end of which is secured to the extension of the limb C at point 0, which draws said limb forward and holds the support A in the vertical position shown in Fig. 1, the apron resting upon the top thereof. As soon as the bunch is rolled the apron 7 draws the support A forward in the position shown by dotted lines 8, Fig. 1. As soon as the bunch has been released from the apron the spring D draws the apron back and holds it taut in position for making a bunch. Several advantages are obtained by the use of this spring-support. First, it automatically draws the apron back into position; second, it pulls the slack back at the extreme rear; third, it holds the apron straight over the recess 5; and again, the bunch is more smoothly rolled when the apron is held taut by the support. When this springsupport is not used the apron is liable to be caught under the roller when it is brought back and the operator has to manipulate the apron to keep it out of the path of the roller and to bring it into proper .position, both of which offices are performed by our springsupport. It also enables the bunches to be made of more uniform size and also secures a more-uniform rolling of the different bunches.

We claim In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination with a rolling-board having a recess at its front end for the reception of the bunch, of an apron attached at its opposite ends to said board, a pivoted rocking support interposed between said apron and board at a point between said recess and the front attachment of the apron, and means for automatically swinging said support upward about its pivots to produce a contact tension on the apron, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands.

SIMON ROSENBERGER. SAMUEL JACKSON.

\Vitnesses:

W. R. Woon, E. E. W001). 7 

